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Three hadass branches. Hadass (Hebrew: הדס , pl. hadassim - הדסים ) is a branch of the myrtle tree that forms part of the netilat loulav used on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
List of endemic flora of Israel refers to flowers, plants and trees endemic to Israel. There are 2,867 known species of plants. Aegilops sharonensis; Allium papillare;
Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority, The National Herbarium of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and ROTEM - Israel plant information center. 1999. Shmida, Avi, MAPA's dictionary of plants and flowers in Israel, MAPA publishers, 2005 (Hebrew). Flora of Israel Online, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, retrieved October 2008.
The forests of contemporary Israel are mainly the result of a massive afforestation campaign by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). This article is a list of these forests . In the 19th century and up to World War I , the Ottoman Empire cleared the land of Israel of its natural reserves of pine and oak trees, in order to build railways across the ...
Hadassah Magazine, a magazine published by Hadassah; Hadassah Medical Center, a medical center in Israel funded by Hadassah; Hadassah (typeface) or Hadassah Friedlaender, a typeface for Hebrew; Hadassah: One Night with the King, a novel based upon the Biblical Book of Esther
Kil'ayim (Hebrew: כִּלְאַיִם, lit."Mixed Kinds") is the fourth tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah, dealing with several biblical prohibitions of mixed species, namely, planting certain mixtures of seeds, grafting different species of trees together, growing plants other than grapevines in vineyards, crossbreeding animals, working a team of different kinds of ...
The plant is common in Israel and Palestine and bears a fruit resembling a buckle, with two discs joined together. In each disc there is one seed. Brassica tournefortii: Tournefort's mustard (Arabic: sufayr; shirtim) Seeds and tender leaves of plant can be used as a spice in salads. Grows primarily in sandy soils along the coastal plains. [48]
The aravah tree typically grows by the side of a river, although in Israel it grows wild in many people's backyards. The branches grow long and are lined with long, narrow leaves. Since this tree requires much water to grow, the picked branches dry out within two or three days.